15 crazy jobs that will exist in the future

15 crazy jobs that will exist in the future

While many jobs will become redundant as technology evolves, the change will also make way for new career opportunities.

To explore how the current education and landscape may evolve, Canadian Scholarship Trust Plan partnered with futurists to imagine a job fair of the future by examining social, technological, economic, and environmental changes occurring today.

The exploration led to a list of careers that will be the most important in 2030. While professions will sill be around, such as teacher and hotelier, the list also contained 14 jobs that do not exists today.

Let’s look at the 15 crazy jobs that may become commonplace in 15 years from now.

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Image: Honda Motor's humanoid robot,next-generation ASIMO steps in the direction being pushed by a model at Honda's office in Wako.Photographs: Reuters

15 crazy jobs that will exist in the future

In 2030, robots will play a greater part in providing home care and services than they do today. The new owners of these general-purpose household robots will need guidance picking the right unit for their home.

This is where a Robot Counsellor will come in handy. This person will be an excellent resource for picking the right bot for the family.

15 crazy jobs that will exist in the future

The nostalgist will be an interior designer specialising in recreating memories for retired people.

Rather than settling for a typical ‘retirement village’ experience where everyone’s apartment looks the same, the wealthy elderly of 2030 will have the luxury of living in a space inspired by their favourite decade.

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Image: A therapist checks on her patient as she undergoes stress relieving procedure.Photographs: Reuters

15 crazy jobs that will exist in the future

A new form of recycling that will likely become popular in 2030 is ‘upcycling’. Upcycling is the practice of turning waste into better quality products. Garbage designers are key to ensuring the success of upcycling.

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Image: A designer works on a restaurant sign at TechShop in the South of Market neighborhood in San Francisco.Photographs: Robert Galbraith/Reuters

15 crazy jobs that will exist in the future

As people expect to live longer, old age will become less mysterious. Planning for the last phases of life will become another stage to prepare for, just like the way people plan for retirement today.

The end of life therapist will be a guide for people planning the last years of their lives. End of life therapists will provide advice about procedures and technologies that will make the physical process of dying smoother..

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Image: Holocaust survivor Betty Stein, 92, (R) is helped by coach Irina Jestkova as she plays ping pong at a program for people with Alzheimer's and dementia at the Arthur Gilbert table tennis center in Los Angeles, California.Photographs: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

15 crazy jobs that will exist in the future

Using a combination of robotic surgery tools, scanning and sensing technologies and high-speed networks, surgeons will operate on people in far away locations.

Surgeons based in cities will virtually commute to where they’re needed and perform routine surgeries by remotely controlling robotic tools.

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Image: U.S. President George W. Bush (L) uses a remote control to deliver a simulated pacemaker to a part of a mockup human brain, as Ali Rezai, director of the center for advanced study of therapies for brain injury guides him, at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.Photographs: Jason Reed/Reuters

15 crazy jobs that will exist in the future

Gamification is the process of adding game logic in order to achieve better outcomes. Not to be confused with a video game designer, the gamification designer will combine game logic with everyday activities, events, products, and services.

As a gamification designer, the person will work with technologists, designers and business people to make the world a more playfully challenging place.

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Image: YEI Technology's Chris George plays a computer game with PrioVR, a virtual reality gaming accessory, during "CES Unveiled," a media preview event to the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), in Las Vegas, Nevada.Photographs: Steve Marcus/Reuters

15 crazy jobs that will exist in the future

From globalisation we will head back to focus more on local communities. In 2030, communities may rely less on the global marketplace due to breakthroughs in solar and wind power, at-home 3D printing, and the return of gardening.

A localiser will be needed to help small neighbourhoods and companies survive and thrive by using what is available to them within a close distance.

15 crazy jobs that will exist in the future

In 2030, populations of wild fish may reduce drastically. Instead of giving up this food, new production methods like aquaponics will step in to replace fish that we can no longer catch in the wild.

Aquaponics combines fish farming with gardening, where plants grow over water to cover its surface, while fish live below. And an Aquaponic fish farmers will be able to set up operations nearly everywhere.

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Image: Stavroula Chasandra, 35, an ichthyologist - a scientist who studies fish - of Selonda fish farming company holds a glass container with newborn sea bass at a hatchery in Psachna village on Evia island.Photographs: Yorgos Karahalis/Reuters